Dense nuclear matter equation of state from heavy-ion collisions

A Sorensen, K Agarwal, KW Brown, Z Chajęcki… - Progress in Particle and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The nuclear equation of state (EOS) is at the center of numerous theoretical and
experimental efforts in nuclear physics. With advances in microscopic theories for nuclear …

Heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton–proton to heavy-ion collisions

A Andronic, F Arleo, R Arnaldi, A Beraudo… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
This report reviews the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-
energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum …

Multisystem Bayesian constraints on the transport coefficients of QCD matter

D Everett, W Ke, JF Paquet, G Vujanovic, SA Bass… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We study the properties of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma with a multistage model
of heavy-ion collisions that combines the TR ENTo initial condition ansatz, free-streaming …

Bayesian estimation of the specific shear and bulk viscosity of quark–gluon plasma

JE Bernhard, JS Moreland, SA Bass - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Ultrarelativistic collisions of heavy atomic nuclei produce an extremely hot and dense phase
of matter, known as quark–gluon plasma (QGP), which behaves like a near-perfect fluid with …

Applying Bayesian parameter estimation to relativistic heavy-ion collisions: simultaneous characterization of the initial state and quark-gluon plasma medium

JE Bernhard, JS Moreland, SA Bass, J Liu, U Heinz - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We quantitatively estimate properties of the quark-gluon plasma created in ultrarelativistic
heavy-ion collisions utilizing Bayesian statistics and a multiparameter model-to-data …

Hydrodynamic modeling of heavy-ion collisions

C Gale, S Jeon, B Schenke - International Journal of Modern …, 2013 - World Scientific
We review progress in the hydrodynamic description of heavy-ion collisions, focusing on
recent developments in modeling the fluctuating initial state and event-by-event viscous …

Properties of hot and dense matter from relativistic heavy ion collisions

P Braun-Munzinger, V Koch, T Schäfer, J Stachel - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
We review the progress achieved in extracting the properties of hot and dense matter from
relativistic heavy ion collisions at the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven …

Transport-theoretical description of nuclear reactions

O Buss, T Gaitanos, K Gallmeister, H Van Hees… - Physics Reports, 2012 - Elsevier
In this review we first outline the basics of transport theory and its recent generalization to off-
shell transport. We then present in some detail the main ingredients of any transport method …

Event-by-event fluctuations in a perturbative QCD+ saturation+ hydrodynamics model: Determining QCD matter shear viscosity in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

H Niemi, KJ Eskola, R Paatelainen - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We introduce an event-by-event perturbative-QCD+ saturation+ hydro (“EKRT”) framework
for ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, where we compute the produced fluctuating QCD …

The QCD phase diagram and Beam Energy Scan physics: a theory overview

L Du, A Sorensen, M Stephanov - International Journal of Modern …, 2024 - World Scientific
We review recent theoretical developments relevant to heavy-ion experiments carried out
within the Beam Energy Scan program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Our main focus …